ACLU: Transgender woman, ejected from Lynnwood store, spurs policy change
By VANESSA HO
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
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After a transgender woman was kicked out of a Ross Dress for Less store while trying on clothes, a civil-rights group said the clothing chain has taken "positive steps" to strengthen its anti-discrimination policy.
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Last November, "Christy_M" wrote on a cross-dressing forum that she was trying on a "beautiful sweater dress" in the company's Lynnwood store when a manager suddenly pounded on the dressing-room door.
"You need to get out of the dressing room now!" the manager is alleged to have yelled. She ordered her customer to leave the store.
I went to a Ross one time back before I was full time. I was in "boy mode" and was looking at women's belts. Some dumb sales lady from a distance had hollered at me "The men's belts are over there." I hollered back, "Yes, I'm aware of that. Thank you" in a sarcastic manner. The same dumb lady ended up ringing me up and kept screwing up the change. After arguing with her she finally got it corrected but then screwed it up in my favor causing me to get about 30 cents or so extra back. Either these stores have a real problem with gender variance or they are unnecessarily up in their customer's business. In either case, they need to train their employees better or replace them with someone who knows what they are doing.
Posted on Advocate.com February 11, 2011
Ross Updates Trans Discrimination Policy
Following an incident in which a trans woman was ejected from a Ross store, the company revises its discrimination policy.
By Advocate.com Editors
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Following the ejection from a Ross Dress for Less store of a transgender woman who was trying on clothes, the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington says that the store is making positive changes to make the company less discriminatory.
In November 2010, "Christy_M" posted on a cross-dressing forum that a manager pounded on the dressing room door of the company's Lynnwood, Wash. store and yelled, "You need to get out of the dressing room now!" as she was trying on a sweater dress. Startled and embarrassed, Christy_M left the store, and vomited in the parking lot. "I felt so embarrassed and disgusted with myself," Christy_M wrote. "I have so much shame wearing on me that I can hardly move."